Working Groups

The department consists of three working groups. They share a strictly comparative alignment to research, an interest in the historical development of welfare states and make use of a wide portfolio of methods.

The working group analyses the political economy of the welfare state, in OECD states in particular. Research includes the analysis of welfare state institutions under the condition of changing political systems and economic problems since the beginning of the industrialization. Read more ...Head:Prof. Dr. Philip Manow

The working group researches the political-institutional and socio-economic determinants in the development, the expansion, modification and structural form of the welfare state. Read more ...Head:Prof. Dr. Herbert Obinger